January 20^th  

Today Mona Charen has delivered herself of some comments in her column that deserve a response other than laughter. She claims that G.W. Bush was “mocked” for saying “they hate our freedom.” No he wasn’t “mocked”; he was wrong. (Do look up the meaning of mocked.) It wasn’t our freedom they hated; it was what we did with it.  Christian armies invading Muslim countries yet again really can open old wounds. You do remember the photo of a senior official, Donald Rumsfeld, in a Republican administration shaking hands with Saddam Hussein. Maybe Rumsfeld was a liberal back in 1983. You’re old enough to remember that.

As to the liberals making nice with the Soviets you do remember eight years of Eisenhower; eight years of Nixon-Ford. (It might have been Nixon-Agnew except that fine conservative resigned to avoid prosecution for taking bribes. You conservatives really know how to pick ‘em.) Then there were eight years of Ronald Reagan; and four years of George Bush. I guess there were plenty of right-wingers appeasing the Soviets during the cold war. During most of this time we had planes in the air loaded with hydrogen bombs regardless of which party was in power. Before that, in 1945 we had planes loaded with atomic bombs ready to take off from English airfields if the Soviets tried to move into disputed territory…they didn’t. Harry Truman also blocked the North Korean-Chinese invasion that attempted takeover South Korea. Dear old Harry, just another bleeding heart, appeasing, liberal.

Your attempts to blame liberals for all the ills the world faces are so badly overdrawn that almost anyone with even rudimentary historical knowledge will find much of what you write simply silly. Your clientele won’t bother to look very closely because you’re feeding them just what they want to read so I’m sure your checks will continue to arrive on time. And for a conservative that is the bottom line, isn’t it?